• raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Kind of, gender is a manifestation of sex, and we’re sexually dimorphic as a species. Like the people who joke about being an attack helicopter or part fairy and stuff aren’t really talking about gender.

    The reason trans people experience dysphoria is due to the real link between sex and gender, if there wasn’t a real basis then conversion therapy would work.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Alternatively: gender and sex could be synonyms, and trans people experience dysphoria because of a mismatch between physical gender/sex and their self-perceived gender/sex, through a mechanism not all that different from other kinds of dysphoria.

      BTW, I am physically male, but don’t perceive or think of myself as of any sex or gender (I think the word is “genderless”), so might as well say I have the “gender” of an inanimate object.